79. The only time Katniss ever felt close to her mother after Prim’s death, was the day her daughter was born. Katniss had grown quite irritable in the last week of her pregnancy, and Peeta, sensing it was time, phoned Mrs. Everdeen and asked her to come. He had felt horrible because there was nothing he could do to make his wife comfortable and he couldn’t help but feel relieved when Mrs. Everdeen was able to change that within minutes of her arrival. She had already brewed a remedial tea for her daughter on the train ride there that would calm her nerves and muscles. To Katniss, this was an act of the healer side of her mother. It wasn’t until her baby was born a girl, when all the while Katniss thought it was going to be a boy, that Katniss went blank. “Name her Lily,” Mrs. Everdeen told her daughter. “Like the Lily of the Valley. It means return of happiness.” Katniss had never thought her mother understood her, but in that moment, they were connected as mother and daughter.